Continuous Improvement Contracts in the North East

Continual Improvement
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Continuous Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 14 18 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.38% 5.33% 8.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 6.67% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 29
10th Percentile £343 £389 £350
25th Percentile £445 £443 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £554 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% -1.99% +6.60%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £573
90th Percentile £750 £590 £580
England median daily rate £518 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.30% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -37.50% +34.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Continuous Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Improvement in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Improvement in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -9 12 £519 -6.32% 81
Durham +3 2 £750 +42.86% 9
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) OpenEdge
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.14%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Coach
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Workday Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Project Management
3 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
3 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
6 2 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (14.29%) Business Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
6 2 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (14.29%) PMP
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (7.14%) Kibana
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Workday